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Groupon Backs Down On Gnome

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-little-internet-outrage-is-all-it-takes dept.

Rambo Tribble writes: Groupon has announced it will abandon the 'Gnome' name for their product, ending the recent naming controversy that had the open source community up in arms. They said, "After additional conversations with the open source community and the Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for 'Gnome.' We will choose a new name for our product going forward." The GNOME Foundation has thanked everyone who helped.

My question... does this represent Gnu thinking on the part of Groupon?

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  1. Yes, after all... by pushing-robot · · Score: 0, Troll

    The GNOME foundation invented the word—nay, the letters themselves, carved and finished from wordstone hewn from the deep tunnels of the earth.

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  2. Re:I donated by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Troll

    Actually, it was a good win by GNOME.

    No, it was not.

    Trademarks have a relationship with the product. Groupon's product had no relationship to GNOME's product.

    GNOME saw an opertunity to get a bunch of Open Source Zelots in a frenzy over a closed source commercial platform for - GASP - making money and flew with it.

    What a bunch of non-issues, non-news, DRAMA ...

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  3. Re:I donated by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 1, Troll

    Or groupon saw an opportunity to (cheaply) get some publicity...

    Groupon thought they could ride on GNOME's huge popular consumer brand? Really?

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